I have never been one to shy away from tackling unpopular or uncomfortable subject matters. In fact, my father always encouraged us as children to tell the truth even if it is met with severe hostilities or displeasure.  So there is no better time than the present to discuss a burning issue that continues to plagues our nation.

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.”- Bill Beattie

No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens” – Michelle Obama

1st of October was a muted affair across the diaspora and in many households in Nigeria. It helps to be honest that, in the last couple of decades, there has been nothing of note to celebrate.  Yes, may be for few not for many. In PMB’s national speech: did strike a worthy note and tone:

“Every generation must fight the same battles again and again and again. There is no final victory, and there is no final defeat, and so a little bit of history may help” -Tony Benn

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

The failures of today’s young people lies with the failure to thrive in an environment that failed spectacularly to provide and prepare them for the future

Nigeria is at a crisis point and sleep walking into a mental ill health epidemic and the government has to provide a programme to prevent further loss of promising young lives

In the last couple of days of PMB’s arrival from abroad for medical treatment, those who had spread fake news, gas lighting and doom mongering are fast retracting their views

What are wealthy Nigerians doing with their wealth? Of course, they love living large and letting everyone know that they have arrived.
They hide their ill-gotten money them in storage rooms, bury them in the ground, put them in foreign banks and buy and build tasteless, gaudy edifice, then invite their sycophants to ogle and worship their stolen wealth

We need to face the truth, what happened on Sunday in Ozubulu is typical of many places in Nigeria. This is not political or tribal, this is the honest truth but some Nigerians cannot face the truth. So they start blaming other people and deny such crime could have been committed in their community

Kanu is free to go anywhere he pleases, he is a Nigerian after all, and as long as he conducts himself like any other Nigerian citizen, he has to obey the law of the land or face the legal consequences

It is said that as many as two thirds of Nigerian women are believed to experience physical, sexual and psychological abuse at the hands of their husbands

They have enough to last many life times but with greed enough is never enough

Mother taught me to have faith and to believe in Allah, so did father, the little time he was home with us